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Restructuring Strategies: Global Pressures, Local Responses

In: Organizational Strategy and Technological Adaptation to Global Change

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  • Ian Taplin
  • Jonathan Winterton

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Globalization, coupled with deregulation, with the ending of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (M FA) has presented clothing manufacturers in the high-wage countries with intensified competition from enterprises in the low-wage economies. The globalization of economic activity (Taylor and Thrift, 1986) revealed the vulnerability of labour-intensive mass production industries to imports from low-wage economies, since Taylorist production is easily replicated in newly-industrialized countries (Dicken, 1992). Clothing manufacture in the high-wage economies, often viewed as a ‘sunset industry’, is undergoing rapid restructuring through factory closures and company downsizing, while enterprises in the newly-industrialized low-wage countries are attracted to garment manufacture by the relatively low barriers to entry. While the outcome is an intensification of the new international division of labour, the local responses to the changes in the global clothing marketplace involve a range of restructuring processes within the clothing industries in high-wage economies.

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  • Ian Taplin & Jonathan Winterton, 1998. "Restructuring Strategies: Global Pressures, Local Responses," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank McDonald & Richard Thorpe (ed.), Organizational Strategy and Technological Adaptation to Global Change, chapter 7, pages 99-119, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14602-4_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14602-4_8
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    1. Taplin, Ian M., 2006. "Strategic change and organisational restructuring: How managers negotiate change initiatives," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 284-301, September.

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